But if you want to see Nic Cage the brilliant actor toying with the persona of Nic Cage the crazy person, watch Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans or Kick-Ass. — Vince Mancini is on Twitter.

Bad Lieutenant is deeply invested in American policing, couched in a semi-caricature of corrupt cop culture that just toes the line enough to feel extravagant without sacrificing truth.

Critic's Pick Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New OrleansDirector: Werner Herzog Screenwriter: Werner Herzog Cast: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer, Xzibit , Fairuza Balk Release Date: 2010-01-27 ...

Loosely inspired by the 1992 crime drama Bad Lieutenant starring Harvey Keitel, Herzog took the basic concept of a corrupt cop and threw out literally everything else. Port of Call New Orleans ...

Bad Lieutenant is among the earliest films to receive the NC-17 rating, which the Motion Picture Association (then the MPAA) adopted in 1990 to replace the old X-rating.

Outside, swarms of children surge into the St. Clare of Assisi School. Abel Ferrara’s 1992 classic Bad Lieutenant, which turns 30 this month, opens with this early morning tableau.

In none of his films is the stamp more marked however than in Bad Lieutenant, Ferrara’s Scorsese-lauded 1992 crime drama involving Harvey Keitel ’s deeply troubled and nameless police ...

But their first movie, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, was directed by Werner Herzog and stars Nicolas Cage. On top of that, the movie is getting good reviews.

Nicolas Cage will star in an updated version of 1992's "Bad Lieutenant" with Werner Herzog directing, Edward R. Pressman producing and Avi Lerner's Nu Image/Millennium Films financing.

“Bad Lieutenant” is a gross understatement.In the latest opus by independent filmmaker Abel Ferrara, one of New York’s worst staggers through a hallucinogenic blur as the Mets battle the ...

Bad Lieutenant is all kinds of wrong, but it feels oh so right. Herzog's film is an unhinged, one of a kind experience unlike anything else you’re likely to see this year.